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A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

Colin Powell

Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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Hard Work People Preparation
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.
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Day Leadership Problem Soldier Yourself
Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
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Help Myself People Problem Solve
I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote.
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Difficult Encouragement Myself Policy
We are not going to dwell on those things that divide us. We are going to rejoice in those things that keep us together to make this a better country – to reach down and back to touch every young person in need!
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Country Division Ourselves Person Rejoice Togetherness
First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.
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Accomplishment Follow Job Medal Reward Tools Training Yourself
If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.
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Dirty End Tools Yourself
The essence of leadership is building bonds of trust in your organization.
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Bond Essence Leadership Organization Trust Yourself
There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.
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Important Organization Person Value Worth
You can be sure that the American spirit will prevail over this tragedy.
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Spirit Tragedy Yourself
Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Care Goodness Organization People Right Yourself
It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Battle Courage Fight Man Yourself
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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People Responsibility
Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.
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Break Greatness Hard Time Tension Time
One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Expression Need Policemen World
The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method.
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Best Method Obstacle Team

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